Run Out of My Life

On the afternoon of September 20, the Rizal Athletics Stadium in Manila, the capital of the Philippines.

Su Zu, Chen Jian and Shen Yunbao arrived at the stadium ahead of schedule, and after warming up, they started the routine procedures such as the inspection and roll call of the athletes.

This is the second time that Su Zu has gone abroad to participate in the competition, but to be honest, although Manila is not far from the country, it takes three hours to arrive by plane, but the experience is not worse than Linz and Vienna. few.

After arriving in Manila on the 18th, the entire delegation only left the hotel at the opening ceremony last night. Not allowed to leave the hotel.

In addition, the hotels they stayed in were all assigned by the local government, and special personnel from the Manila Police Office were responsible for security.

Su Zu didn't die to the point of going out for a run again. He has stayed in a peaceful and safe environment in China for a long time. Except for the foreign affairs staff and the team leader coach who knew the situation in advance, other people in the delegation I really didn't expect the security environment here to be so bad.

The overall situation is not particularly good. Robbery and murder are reported from time to time. On July 1, the chairman of the Amateur Athletic Association in the Philippines was attacked by gangsters on his way to work and shot twice in the right cheek. Fortunately, the rescue was timely. . In particular, there was an attempted mutiny on July 27, and rumors that terrorists may launch retaliatory attacks after the continuous arrest of the leaders of terrorist organizations in Southeast Asia are also worrying.

From the moment I left the hotel, I could see many police officers escorting the Asian Championships. Although the Asian Athletics Championships are not very attractive to top athletes, in general, the specifications are not low. The organizers also attach great importance to this Asian Championships. The President has been on the stage since August, asking all government agencies to fully support the work of the Asian Athletics Championships Organizing Committee.

Su Zu and Chen Jian participated in the same event in this Asian Championships, both men's 100-meter sprint, and then both of them were members of the 4×100-meter relay race.

In addition to signing up for the 100m individual event, Shen Yunbao, like Yang Guangzong, also signed up for the men's 200m. In addition, He Jun and Yin Hangchao several relay race members signed up for the 200m and 400m.

This is also the current main team member and relay runner of the Chinese men's sprint project.

In contrast to the relatively simple national track and field championships in China, the men's 100-meter sprint in the Asian Championships is divided into four rounds: qualifying, preliminaries, semi-finals and finals.

The men's 100-meter sprint has already had a round of qualifying in the morning. The number of people from the national delegation to participate this time is not large. Su Zu, Chen Jian and Shen Yunbao directly entered the official preliminaries. The qualifiers are also mainly for other member countries that are more backward in track and field sprinting in the Asian region.

Four athletes were selected from the qualifying rounds of the two groups in the morning and added to the preliminaries.

At 17:25 pm, the men's 100-meter preliminaries started, plus the 4 athletes in the qualifying round, a total of 38 athletes were divided into 5 preliminaries.

The top two teams in each preliminaries will automatically qualify for the semifinals, and then the top six players in the remaining players will enter the semifinals of the two groups according to the total score.

After the group preliminaries started, with the current strength of Su Zu and Chen Jian, they easily qualified for the semi-finals.

Shen Yunbao's group has relatively strong players. They didn't get the top two results in the group, but only got the fourth place. Fortunately, the overall results are good. He successfully entered the semi-finals with a time of 10.51 seconds.

The time for the semi-finals is after the men's and women's 1500m finals, that is, at 18:50 in the evening.

The lights in the Rizal Stadium gradually light up, illuminating the entire stadium.

Before the game, Yu Liwei and Li Zhizhong called together Su Zu, Chen Jian and Shen Yunbao and gave a brief explanation.

"You should pay attention to the semi-finals. Coach Li and I observed the preliminaries just now, and there are still a few players who are good. Especially Shen Yunbao, your preliminaries ran a little bad." Yu Liwei With his hands behind his back, he swept over the three athletes who had entered the 100-meter semifinals.

The pressure on the team leaders and coaches this time is much greater than before. One aspect is the local security factor. People outside the country must be careful in everything and coordinate with the organizer. Another aspect is the 12th Asian Championships held in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The Chinese track and field team won a record-breaking 26 golds, 13 silvers and 3 bronzes. The track and field team of the 15th Asian Track and Field Championships held the following year can be said to be under pressure. Not much. The results obtained are not better than the last time, but the gap should not be too big.

"The two players in Shen Yunbao's group should be strong contenders for medals. I just saw them in the preliminaries and they seem to have reservations."

Li Zhizhong glanced at Shen Yunbao as he spoke. He is not Shen Yunbao's head coach, but he is the only one of the 100m coaches who came to the Asian Championships this time. The number of people participating in the Asian Championships this time is small, and Li Zhizhong was only qualified because Su Zugang broke the national record.

"The two of them should have released water in the second half." Shen Yunbao nodded and said that although he did not run well in the preliminaries, as an old sprinter, he watched a runner's performance during the competition. The level is still very accurate. In the end, whether people release water or not, and whether they have the ability to go further, can basically be judged.

"One is Kazakh's Chenohar and the other is Saudi Arabia's Al Yami. I think both of them can run in 10.30 seconds." Li Zhizhong continued, "There are also Shingo Kawada, a rookie player from Japan, I think his strength is also good."

Being able to run in 10.30 seconds is already a certain threat to the current domestic players. At least in the first half of the year, Su Zu and Chen Jian ran out of the Grand Prix with this result. .

Now, in the just-concluded All Championships, both of them have made a big breakthrough, and their strength should be much stronger than before. However, in sprinting, affected by the venue environment, personal state, psychological factors, etc., it can run twice in 10.20 seconds in the finals, but it is difficult to guarantee this result every time.

After listening to Li Zhizhong's analysis, Su Zu and Chen Jian's expressions became much more solemn.

After Yu Liwei left, Li Zhizhong walked up to the two of them and whispered: "This time there won't be too many gold medals, you two are a double guarantee, this men's 100m gold medal is not allowed. lost."

Track and field competitions, not individual events like tennis and billiards, are inseparable from backing support no matter what. If you want to go further, you must continue to have better and more stable results to support.

Although Su Zu knew that his state would definitely be able to play relatively stable, he couldn't say it at this time. The current Asian first-class players' basic performance is around 10.20 seconds. The men's sprint champion Salfa won the championship with a time of 10.24 seconds. Although Su Zu is confident, he is still far from being able to ignore these people.

"Come on!" Li Zhizhong exhorted, he was always at ease with Su Zu's state, but his concern was chaotic. This is Su Zu's first international heavyweight competition, and its significance is naturally different. It goes without saying.

At 18:50, the semi-finals begin.

Chen Jian and Shen Yunbao were in the first group of the semifinals. Sure enough, in this group, the Kazakh player Chenuohal, who was mentioned by Shen Yunbao, ran 10.29 seconds, which was better than Chen The built 10 seconds 27 is only two hundredths of a second slower. And it is a semi-final, no one can guarantee whether the other party has reservations.

Suzu met another Saudi al-Yami in the semi-finals, who was also very strong. At least in the men's 100 meters, except for him and Chen Jian, who can press each other, other sprinters in China are probably worse.

After the semi-finals, the list of eight players who will be in the final at 19:00 tomorrow night will be released soon.

1.Su Zu/China/10 seconds 20

2. Chen Jian/China/10 seconds 27

3. Mubarak al-Yami/Saudi Arabia/10 seconds 28

4.Chenochal/Kazakhstan/10 sec 29

5. Kawada Shingo/Japan/10 seconds 41

6. Maimaiti Fahan/Bahrain/10 seconds 43

7.Suwang Pratep/Thailand/10 seconds 44

8. Shen Yunbao/China/10 seconds 47